Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Windows server management overview
Posted on July 27, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Windows Server is the platform for building an infrastructure of connected applications, networks, and web services. As a Windows Server administrator, you've probably used many of the native Windows Server Microsoft Management Consoles (MMC) to keep the infrastructure secure and available. By Thomas Maurer and others.
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How to create a mobile lab with VMware Fusion
Posted on July 19, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
I am going to setup a mobile lab on my MacBook Pro with the help of VMware Fusion 12 so I can run some ESXi servers with nested virtualization. This way I will have a lab I can carry around with me on my travels around the world. By Edwin Weijdema.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design leadership-and-career miscellaneous
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A technique to teach bimanual robots stir-fry cooking
Posted on June 23, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length short
As robots make their way into a variety of real-world environments, roboticists are trying to ensure that they can efficiently complete a growing number of tasks. For robots that are designed to assist humans in their homes, this includes household chores, such as cleaning, tidying up and cooking. By Ingrid Fadelli , Tech Xplore.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure ai-and-machine-learning data-and-analytics
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Things a city needs to become a startup hub
Posted on June 22, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
It's common sense that being part of a thriving startup community can bring immense advantages to your own project. Yet, not all startup founders have the opportunity or desire to move to Silicon Valley, New York, London, Beijing, or any of the other big startup hubs. By Abdo Riani.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Why managed container services help startups and tech companies build smarter
Posted on June 21, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Learning how to install and manage Kubernetes clusters can be a big obstacle between your organization and all the potential magic of a container orchestration platform. You have to consider tasks like provisioning machines, choosing OS and runtime, and setting up networking and security. By Fer De Oliveira @google.
Tags business-and-emerging-tech product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Introduction to Linear Programming in Python
Posted on June 19, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
A guide to mathematical optimization with Google OR-Tools. Linear programming is a technique to optimize any problem with multiple variables and constraints. It's a simple but powerful tool every data scientist should master. By Maxime Labonne.
Tags backend-development product-and-design software-engineering cloud-and-infrastructure
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Three myths of open source software risk and the one nobody is discussing
Posted on June 18, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Open source software is being vilified once again and, in some circles, even considered a national security threat. Open source software risk has been a recurring theme: First it was classified as dangerous because anyone could work on it and then it was called insecure because nobody was in charge. By Josh Bressers.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design miscellaneous cloud-and-infrastructure
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A deep dive into OpenTelemetry metrics
Posted on June 12, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length long
OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for infrastructure instrumentation hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). The project gained a lot of momentum with contributions from all major cloud providers (AWS, Google, Microsoft) as well as observability vendors (including Timescale) to the point it became the second-highest ranked CNCF project by activity and contributors, only coming second to Kubernetes itself. By James Blackwood-Sewell.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career product-and-design
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How Power BI metrics and scorecards can transform productivity within business objectives
Posted on June 11, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Metric and goal setting is paramount when formulating business operations. That's why Microsoft Metrics (previously known as "Goals") make it possible to keep every member of a team striving toward a singular, unified key objective and ensures a higher probability of positive outcomes. By Jocelyn Porter.
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Blockchain scalability: Execution, storage, and consensus
Posted on June 10, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Trust minimization is a valuable security property that blockchain technology is uniquely positioned to generate—replacing handshakes, brand reputation, and paper contracts with guarantees based on computer code, cryptography, and decentralized consensus. These superior guarantees provided by blockchains form the basis of cryptographic truth. By chain.link.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure business-and-emerging-tech leadership-and-career software-engineering data-and-analytics
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Demystifying getting a job in Google DevRel
Posted on June 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
This post is written from author's personal experience in Google DevRel for 12 of the last 16 years. By Mano Marks.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career
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Distributed ledger technology 101
Posted on June 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length long
The terms "blockchain" and "distributed ledger technology" (DLT) may be widely used but are not always well understood. This article explains the differences between them. Rather than covering the technical aspects in depth, we will focus on how and why these technologies have the potential to disrupt existing business models and perhaps even create entirely new ones. By Bankless Publishing.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure data-and-analytics architecture-and-apis